Evi Fragaki was a guest on “Noriis Noriis” this Friday morning (8/5). The Action24 journalist spoke about the difficulties one faces in delivering news bulletins, the quirks that can arise and the difficult moment she had to announce the death of a colleague’s son.
“I’ve been trying not to cry while reading ‘on’ because it was about a very close person, a colleague’s child, who passed away quite suddenly and we had to say it on the news bulletin because it was on the local news anyway, nationwide. So this, at that moment, when my colleague is watching from her house, living her grief and I am called upon to tell the news… I had a multiple burden, because I had seen my colleague exactly the day before,” Evi Fragaki confessed.
“There it was very wild, very heavy. I have lived too many difficult moments and in news shows, because there you have the flexibility, if I say something touching or if something touching happens, to feel it, to live it. In the newscast you say “on” in fifteen seconds and then you “break” afterwards, “break” afterwards. If you have to break…
This time I didn’t manage to wait the 15 seconds. That is, I “broke” and looked down to read the rest in the autocue – and it’s not that I tried, because we’re all normal people, with normal emotions all. It’s not that I tried either to show that I was moved, nor to hide it, but not to suppress it either,” Evi Fragaki admits.
“The autocue is my joy, it’s a lifesaver. It never confuses me, it’s a rejoicing of my little soul. In the newscast, because I write the texts I say, in essence you know what you are going to say. So even if the machine breaks down and if the autocue gets stuck, you know where you are. In all of this you need to be calm and aware of a little bit of information,” Evi Fragaki stressed at another point in the conversation.
